SHOPPING

In Nantes, they don't talk about window-shopping, the verb is "crébillonner", from the name of the Rue Crébillon, the town's smartest shopping street. It opens onto the famous Passage Pommeraye, the 19th Century shopping arcade with elegant, original boutiques.
Don't forget to take home our delicious specialities: Muscadet sur Lie, Petits Beurres LU biscuits, Guérande "fleur de sel" salt, butter caramels, traditional Berlingot and Rigollette sweets, Nantillais cocktail or Blonde du Bouffay beer, Pornic ceramics, marine-wear (boots, Breton shirts, caps, etc.) and latest editions of Jules Verne's works...

Here you can buy books, walking guides, beautiful postcards, posters, and regional specialities, like the famous "Berlingots Nantais" and "rigolettes" sweets, etc.
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- Galeries Lafayette sells more than 300 great labels.
- Bookshop of the Castle of the dukes of Brittany proposes artworks, objects, postcards and collections.
- ABC Terroirs proposes typical products of the Pays de la Loire.
- La Friande has all the goodies from caramels, "mûroise" (a delicious cross between a raspberry and a blackberry), jams to home-made chocolates.

- Berlingot, chocolates, wines and other tastes of  Nantes etc >>]

- Coiffard, Vent d'ouest, Durance, L'Atalante, Aladin, La Géothèque, Les Enfants terribles... more adresses and informations in our touristic guide to download or available at the Tourist Office. 
- list of disks and books of artists of Nantes [> on Ville de Nantes web site

The Marché de Talensac is the town's biggest one, open every day except Monday.
Markets List >]

For bargain-hunters: Rue Jean Jaurès, with antique and bric-à-brac shops and art galleries, and round the Place Viarme, where the artists and craftsmen have their workshops. This is where the Nantes Flea Market is held every Saturday morning.
Flea Market [> 

The biggest shopping and leisure centre in the West : Atlantis in Saint-Herblain. A cinema multiplex, Onyx theatre, major stores like Décathlon and Ikea, a Leclerc supermaket, a bowling....Tramway line1 : terminus François-Mitterrand
Shopping center Beaulieu - Nantes - recently expanding with the "île de Nantes" project, Other shopping centers :  Atout Sud, Paridis, Beaujoire, Saint Seb boulevard.